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By Jennifer Van Allen, Runner's World When you first start working out, it's tempting to dust off the vaguely-athletic-looking shoes in your closet, but it's not a good idea. Worn-out or ill-fitting shoes are a leading cause of injury. And wear and tear are not always apparent to the http://www.chicemma.com naked eye. If you want to stay healthy, fit, and injury-free, invest in a good pair of workout shoes. Follow these tips to make sure you get the pair that you need. (Or, check out the latest Runner's World Shoe Guide for some stylish ideas.) Don't skimp. <br>Source: http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/6-ways-perfect-workout-shoes-193100122.html?.tsrc=yahooHere

Barrel Aid attends mud races from around the country and collects donated shoes, which are laundered and transported in barrels to Mission Haiti in Ti-Rivier. After the shoes have been distributed, Barrel Aid's barrels are fitted with an easy-to-use gutter in order to capture clean rain water for drinking and cooking. Last year Barrel Aid collected more than 50% of participants' shoes from The Battleground's mud run. Organization president Nic Zahasky said they typically collect a third of the runners' shoes at other mud run events. Barrel Aid donates all of the broken and unusuable shoes to TerraCycle, which refurbishes them for people in the U.S. For every 25 pounds of recycled shoes they receive from Barrel Aid, 10 is donated to Mission Haiti. The Battlegrounds at Cedar Lake, the Midwest's only permanent mud run and obstacle course, will hold its five-mile mud run that features more than 30 military-themed obstacles at 950 State Highway 00 in Wright City, Mo. next to Cedar Lake Cellars Winery and Event Center. The Barrel Aid's big blue barrels will be located at the end of the mud run for those interested in donating their shoes. Proceeds from the mud run and a post-race silent auction will benefit The Mission Continues, a national non-profit organization based in St. Louis that engages veterans transitioning out of the military into community service leadership at home. For more information, contact Nic Zahasky at (563) 419-7465 or visit http://www.barrelaid.com . For mud run details, call Bob Holm at (314) 569-3005 or visit the website at http://www.thebattlegrounds.com . <br>Source: http://interact.stltoday.com/pr/non-profits/PR032614033916424

If you don't think anyone can destroy the pleasure of the flat shoe, think back, if you will, to the late 1990s during the rise of denim. Suddenly jeans were fashionable remember that? That was exciting. Or, it was, until the fashionability stepped in and insisted that the only properly fashionable jeans were ones that strangled your legs and bum in a manner that rather undermined the first part of jeans' original appeal (comfortable sexlessness) and cost over 200, thus undermining jeans' secondary appeal (like the parakeet said, cheap cheap cheap.) Inevitably, this being the fashion world, things have now come full circle and now style magazines insist that the coolest jeans are the cheap and shapeless jeans, a claim that feels especially cruel after the public was indoctrinated for over a decade with the lesson that only tight jeans that cost as much as a week's rent were acceptable. Oh, fashion. So, flat shoes are now in fashion but not the flat shoes you have. What would be the point of promoting something you already own? <br>Source: http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2014/mar/24/flat-shoes-fashion-complicated-pool-sliders-trainers-ballet-pumps-wonky-ugly